High School Team Punishment?

[Kimmy]

Next year seniors and coaches have been discussing this topic for the upcoming year. Last year we did lots of team punishment. It was moderate for repeated mistakes (but hell at camp and one really bad day) and pretty bad if someone misbehaved. More lines and bearcrawls then you can count. Is team punishments for these thibgs common? Does your coach do it? Worth the time to do it?

 

[Twinklestars]

Some girls were chronically late to practice and never got punished. Some girls didn't try to spot and didn't get punished when stunts fell, even if the flyer hit the floor. Other girls got punished for the same stuff.

Team punishments were often because of overall bad days with sort of bad attitudes. But, it was a lot of the seniors and returners messing up and around that would get the whole team punished. They had one really bad camp day also.

 

[jessicastuart]

A team is only as strong as their weakest link. When necessary, I think the team should be punished as a whole.. Especially when it comes to tardiness and safety during stunts. What I do consistently at my practices is the team needs to run the number of laps that match the number of minutes they were late. Example: if A was 5 minutes late, B was 2 minutes late and C was also 5 minutes late, they need to do 12 laps.

Day 3 at camp ALWAYS breaks my teams. The attitudes, frustration and exhaustion come out in full force. I'm glad I'm not the only one with that issue!

 

[AScheer]

A team is only as strong as their weakest link. When necessary, I think the team should be punished as a whole.. Especially when it comes to tardiness and safety during stunts. What I do consistently at my practices is the team needs to run the number of laps that match the number of minutes they were late. Example: if A was 5 minutes late, B was 2 minutes late and C was also 5 minutes late, they need to do 12 laps.

Day 3 at camp ALWAYS breaks my teams. The attitudes, frustration and exhaustion come out in full force. I'm glad I'm not the only one with that issue!

Camp day 3 gets every team! I always prep my kids for it, letting them know ahead of time what its going to be like! We usually have a reward if we make it through the day with good attitudes. Our "we were good on day 3 reward" only happened one season so far! Here's hoping for this next season!

 

[allaboutthatbase]

My team has always gone by team punishment and personally I do not think it works. If one girl was late we would be forced to do suicides and that only led to multiple girls coming late cause they figured they would have to run the suicides anyway for a different girl. Then there was this huge "situation" with 2 out of the 18 girls on the squad that led to huge group punishment (lasted weeks) where girls would get sick and hurt from the workouts. The worst part was one of the girls did not even take part in them one practice because she wasn't feeling up to it.

 

[oncecoolcoachnowmom]

Camp day 3 gets every team!

The Day 3 struggle is so real. We did home camp once because I needed a break from the inevitable crazy that comes with Day 3 of an away camp experience.

 

[Official OWECheer]

The Day 3 struggle is so real. We did home camp once because I needed a break from the inevitable crazy that comes with Day 3 of an away camp experience.

Why day 3 of all days?

 

[Twinklestars]

Our home UCA camp had a bad Day 3!

 

[oncecoolcoachnowmom]

Why day 3 of all days?

^^^The novelty of "omg big sleepover time with all my best friends like omggg love you girls so much" has worn off.

The "kumbaya" of camp excitement is wearing thin. You're tired. You're sick of walking everywhere. You remember that you actually don't like Jenny that much and no amount of camp kumbaya is changing it.

Your stunts aren't really hitting and the "OMG I love my new stunt group" is slowly fading. You've passed "It's ok girls, love you! You got this!" to snapping at your flyer.

If you're not the type of child who likes to be away from home, you are starting to feel it.

I do think the away camp experience is valuable in that sense, though. It teaches great life lessons.

 

[vannahlexis]

^^^The novelty of "omg big sleepover time with all my best friends like omggg love you girls so much" has worn off.

The "kumbaya" of camp excitement is wearing thin. You're tired. You're sick of walking everywhere. You remember that you actually don't like Jenny that much and no amount of camp kumbaya is changing it.

Your stunts aren't really hitting and the "OMG I love my new stunt group" is slowly fading. You've passed "It's ok girls, love you! You got this!" to snapping at your flyer.

If you're not the type of child who likes to be away from home, you are starting to feel it.

I do think the away camp experience is valuable in that sense, though. It teaches great life lessons.

Hahahahahahah this is so true


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[GForce]

^^^The novelty of "omg big sleepover time with all my best friends like omggg love you girls so much" has worn off.

The "kumbaya" of camp excitement is wearing thin. You're tired. You're sick of walking everywhere. You remember that you actually don't like Jenny that much and no amount of camp kumbaya is changing it.

Your stunts aren't really hitting and the "OMG I love my new stunt group" is slowly fading. You've passed "It's ok girls, love you! You got this!" to snapping at your flyer.

If you're not the type of child who likes to be away from home, you are starting to feel it.

I do think the away camp experience is valuable in that sense, though. It teaches great life lessons.

Very very very true! I witnessed all of this at my camps this summer! The day 3 struggle. But once you get to the rally at day three everyone's moods picked back up. And by the time camp champs started on day 4, everyone was better!

 

[AScheer]

The Day 3 struggle is so real. We did home camp once because I needed a break from the inevitable crazy that comes with Day 3 of an away camp experience.

I've always wondered if the teams that go to 3 day camps instead of 4 have a bad last day, or if they just don't have any bad days?

 

[AScheer]

Why day 3 of all days?

Exhaustion! You're sore. You're tired. You want real food, and dinner that isn't served at 4 in the afternoon. You want to sleep in your own bed without a roommate. You are sick of the peppy staff that also wants you to be peppy at 8 am. You're mentally overloaded from all of the new material and while cheerleading for 4 straight days non-stop sounded like fun, at that point you question your entire life decisions that lead you to that point. You're tired of walking everywhere, especially with those blisters that have now formed from your semi-new cheer shoes. You're tired of cheering non-stop with little to no breaks, because even on the short UCA breaks, your coach wants to practice because tomorrow is camp championships and you still don't know the dance well enough!

Day 3 though, is one of the reasons we still go to UCA camps. The bonding that comes out of day 3 is worth every bit of it. Between day 3 and championships on day 4, your new team feels like they've been through it together and come out much stronger!

 

[omgitssydthekid]

A team is only as strong as their weakest link. When necessary, I think the team should be punished as a whole.. Especially when it comes to tardiness and safety during stunts. What I do consistently at my practices is the team needs to run the number of laps that match the number of minutes they were late. Example: if A was 5 minutes late, B was 2 minutes late and C was also 5 minutes late, they need to do 12 laps.

Day 3 at camp ALWAYS breaks my teams. The attitudes, frustration and exhaustion come out in full force. I'm glad I'm not the only one with that issue!

You are not alone with the day three of camp...from a staffer perspective, I see it at almost every camp I'm at.


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[omgitssydthekid]

I've always wondered if the teams that go to 3 day camps instead of 4 have a bad last day, or if they just don't have any bad days?

Sorry for the double post but I see it way more at four day camps than at three day camps. I really only see it at three days camps if it's a home camp or if the team has a a lot of kids that are BRAND new to cheer. Camp can be overwhelming for kids that have been cheering for years, but it can be a nightmare for kids that have never cheered a day in their life which was me in eighth grade.


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